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What is a dirty little secret about an industry that you have worked in, that people really ought to know?

Redcupcoffee 7 Mar 23
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Many Honeywell/Ademco Lynx alarm panels (self contained) can be disabled simply by popping off the front from the wall mounted back. The early versions are incredibly simple and fast, later ones are a bit more difficult, but with some brute strength, still too easy.

MikaB Level 5 Mar 23, 2018
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Hershey Chocolate has changed their formula-use more air in their product-softer, less chocolate consistency. Used to be more solid and price points have remained the same but the size is less than 50% original sizes - why you need to buy more Reeses peanut butter cups for Halloween snack size. at same price.

Worked for Hersheys,and MM Mars-they both kept price points but Mars products haven't changed formula because no solid chocolate except Dove bars.

Think that's happened with pretty much every food product that's been around for a while

doesn't taste as good as original formula.

Old Hershey miniatures new snack size

This must be so the cockroach legs mix in better.

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I currently work in the community sector, we recycle used good and materials, sadly and through noones fault, 85% still ends up in landfill.
I am a wildlife carer, far more animals are euthanised than saved, sad and distressing.

The big one, I worked in international banking and finance for many years, people always base the value of things in currency, bad move, it is not at all real. What happens when currencies go up and down? When shares collapse? Who loses? Who buys both currencies and stock when they are their lowest.
Put it another way, imagine you could manipulate these markets, if you bought low and rising stock, sell them before the peak, then buy them again after. Would you? Think about all the people who have been charged with insider trading. They were just plebs who got to know about things and tried to get iin on the action, they were not the ones behind them who make the decisions.
Our society is like an ant colony, all the worker ans go out and produce, collect and store but hey don't get to keep it. In our case, taxes, changes in government policy, currency and stock fluctuations all funnel the resources up the line, hence the mega rich get richer.
I stopped playing the game when I realised I was just a pawn. I invented my own game with my rules.

@Beach_slim Oh no, I just did a reply to this and it is gone, I will wait and see if it turns up, if not will repost.Also, I made a typo, it was international banking. sorry.

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I used to rear or help rear broiler chickens for the table. they take approx 7 weeks from day old to be big enough to eat. there are 30,000 to a shed and there supposed to be drug-free for ten days before slaughter. the thing is there at there most crowded and vulnerable in the last 10 days and its the worst time economically to have them die. they always got me to put antibiotics in their water mainly in the last week or so. one other thing even there feathers are fed back to them in powdered form in there food.

One of the reasons I eat less meat.

most food is factory farmed and modified or taken out of the wild. humans are a virus

I agree with you @atheist we are too far in but nature is going to stop us and sooner rather than later. we've taken being territorial to a whole new level because of our big brains which are also our Achilles heel.

so what? what? what?

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In big box retail, rewarding good employees with consistent scheduling is discouraged. In one training class, we were even told to never worry about the "actively engaged" employees, because they would do good work no matter what. I strongly disagree with that sentiment and the practice of inconsistent scheduling about 2 weeks in advance (that could change at the last minute, anyway).
I don't plan on being back in that industry ever again.

Not to mention the mandatory anti-union propaganda presentations.

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Well.. I used to down stack pallets of groceries to bring to the stockpersons. I would sample the products.

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I could tell ya, but then I'd have ta kill ya! Nah, I got nuthin. Never worked in food service (where I'm sure there are a million issues) or health care, or the IRS.

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In a bacon factory it is common practic to walk over the bacon slabs in your work boots. Discovering that put me off eating bacon. For about a week. Hummm....bacon 🙂

Nomad Level 6 Mar 23, 2018

Why?

What? What company was that?
Coincidentally I spent a summer working in a bacon factory in college. LOL
Never saw that happen! Now I did see a bunch of elderly women catch the weiners come flying out of the machine and drying them off with paper towels. LOL

@sassygirl3869 Why did they tread on them you mean? The slabs were on the floor and in the way, and the people who worked there were too lazy to pick them up, move them or go around them. Thankfully I only had to do it for a few weeks as a temp when i was a teenager. 2nd worst job ever ?

@Qualia Can't remember tbh, it was so long ago, and I was only there two weeks (which was more than enough). I think it was somewhere outside London. We got minibused in at around 05:00 so I couldn't see much.

@Nomad I used to know a guy who worked in a sausage factory for a while, and he said the same: every evening they hauled frozen meat out of the freezers and left it on the factory floor to thaw overnight ready to go into the mincing machines the next day. As the slabs of meat were very large, heavy and frozen solid, they simply stepped on them.

And people wonder why I don't eat meat!

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That in restaurants, nobody uses tongs to get lemon wedges for drinks.

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Archaeologists, believe it or not, do not (usually) have bullwhips nor run around fighting Nazis, not discover vast hordes of gold.

Jnei Level 8 Mar 23, 2018

We just wish they did! =] Paleontologists don't get to go to live dinosaur parks either.

Are you sure?

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Darn! My dreams are crushed! Lol! 🙂

Tell me, do you at least wear the hat? C'mon I need something.

Are they afraid of snakes though?

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The Catholic clergy have a thing for little boys!

Oh wait...

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Once in never out

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